Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922

A unique international collaboration, presenting various perspectives on the Genoa Conference of 1922.

Carole Fink (Edited by), Axel Frohn (Edited by), Jürgen Heideking (Edited by)

9780521411677, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 November 1991

274 pages
23.7 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.55 kg

"Overall, they reflect the praiseworthy trend of the latest scholarship in this area which has concentrated on the interplay of business and politics. The oil question, for example, is given a high profile....this volume is an unexpectedly rich research guide to international affairs in the early 1920s." Alan Cassels, The International History Review

One of the largest twentieth-century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference: its leadership, goals, and outcome. The authors present new findings on such questions as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and the policy of the United States toward European debts. Readers will find contrasting as well as complementary views in this volume.

Illustrations list
Maps list
Abbreviations list
Introduction
1. Beyond revisionism: the Genoa conference of 1992 Carole Fink
2. The Genoa conference of 1922: Lloyd George and the politics of recognition Andrew Williams
3. A rainy day, April 16, 1922: the Rapallo treaty and the cloudy perspective for German foreign policy Peter Krüger
4. Reparations in 1922 Sally Marks
5. Germany and the United States: the concept of world economic interdependence Manfred Berg
6. American policy toward debts and reconstruction at Genoa, 1922 Stephen A. Schuker
7. French plans for the reconstruction of Russia: a history and evaluation Anne Hogenhuis-Seliverstoff
8. The oil problem and Soviet-American relations at the Genoa conference of 1922 A. A. Fursenko
9. Italy at the Genoa conference: Italian-Soviet commercial relations Giorgio Petracchi
10. The European policy of Czechoslovakia on the Eve of the Genoa conference of 1922 Frank Hadler
11. The Genoa conference and the little entente Magda Ádám
12. The role of Switzerland and the Neutral States at the Genoa conference Antoine Fleury
13. The Genoa conference and Japan: a lesson in Great-Power diplomacy Takako Ueta
Maps
Appendix
Selected bibliography
Contributors
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]